Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] much [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text of warranties has become much longer because solicitors have included very many specific warranties as well as general warranties . |
| 2 | The United States of America has progressed much further than the United Kingdom has in determining this question but the basic legal principles are the same : copyright protects expression but not idea . |
| 3 | Calm water : Mushroom anemones seem to fare much better if placed in quiet areas of the tank , where the current is n't strong enough to actually move the disc of the polyp . |
| 4 | Being made of metal , often precious metal , coins have tended to survive much better than less durable objects . |
| 5 | One would however have to go much further than this . |
| 6 | What I feel goes much deeper than that . |
| 7 | They 'd have to try much harder than this . |
| 8 | Over all , you 'd have fared much better than keeping your money in a bank or building society . |
| 9 | It was doubtful if those two men could have done much worse than he was doing now ! |
| 10 | They should have done much better as they dominated for long spells , but failed miserably in the art of scoring . |
| 11 | Cutting that over the numbers had me down and stopped well before the first intersection , a distance of around 400 metres , and I could have done much better if I 'd heaved on the brakes , which are single Goodyear discs with excellent stopping power . |
| 12 | That his resignation and pilgrimage can not have occurred much later than 844 is indicated by information given by Taskopruzade concerning Molla Fenari 's son , Yusuf Bali , namely that he became kadi of Bursa — no date is given for his appointment — and died as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
| 13 | Admittedly Ordovician graptolite zones must have lasted much longer than the ammonite zones of the Mesozoic , but nevertheless the time scale is still surprising . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've wanted to do much better than I 've done . |
| 15 | Outlining goes much deeper than that , and can become quite complex , dealing with the way you can handle 3d spreadsheets ( not , I hasten to add , Excel 's , but those from another , competing manufacturer , whose 3d spreadsheets can be imported directly ) . |
| 16 | My advice to other mums , though , is start as early as possible going to groups , like NCT New Mums , so he learns to socialise much earlier than my son did . ’ |
| 17 | Senna said Mansell had braked much earlier than anticipated . |
| 18 | When Miss Poraway had mentioned a Tupperware party Mrs Stead-Carter had gone much further than she 'd ever gone before . |
| 19 | She had gone much further than she had imagined . |
| 20 | So far things had gone much better than she had expected . |
| 21 | They had drifted much farther than I would have thought possible . |
| 22 | It was a sign that Ceauşescu intended to go much further than Dej in rehabilitating the Romanian past and distancing the Communist regime from the original Soviet model , at least so far as public presentation went . |
| 23 | Some — especially those in the south or those with a wide range of incentives such as regional and European Community assistance — have done much better than others . |
| 24 | Although average sales per outlet have shown a slight decrease in each of the last five years , some of our licensees have done much better than others . |
| 25 | It had been said in the past that there was a convention that the House of Lords would not pass amendments calculated to alter the kernel of a bill approved by the Commons , but in recent years amendments have gone much further than altering the fine details of the Bill . |
| 26 | I have gone much further than I intended when I set out on this report and am already beginning to regret the substantial breach in normal departmental procedures which this has involved . |
| 27 | To be fair , some stations , for example the one at Hinkley Point in Somerset , have worked much better than this description suggests , and the two latest examples , at Heysham in Lancashire and Torness in Scotland , look more promising . |
| 28 | This effect occurs in practically any room , but it is more noticeable in concert halls or other large rooms , where the indirect sounds have to travel much further than the direct sounds , and are therefore delayed by a much greater amount . |